Since completing my PhD I have worked in the Church of England in full-time ministry which I have combined with some part-time teaching and research. I was ordained deacon (2003) and priest (2004) in the Diocese of London.

How do you harness a muse and discover an artistic voice? Professor John Rink and his colleagues at the Centre for Musical Practice as Creative Performance (CMPCP) are seeking the key in their project on creative learning in musical performance.

Orchestras everywhere are often markers of power and status, in which musicians establish allegiances and hierarchical relationships. New research by Professor Tina K. Ramnarine at the Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) is looking at the shared features of orchestras across the globe, along with the sociological and musical questions they raise.

Musical performance has increasingly attracted the attention of researchers after generations of relative neglect. Now, in a dynamic five-year programme, the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) is achieving new levels of understanding about music and how it is created both in and through performance.

Through information and communication technologies (ICT), we are constructing a new habitat - the “infosphere”, as Luciano Floridi terms it, - in which we spend increasing time. Immersion in that infosphere, including TV, phone and internet use now takes up over half of the UK’s waking hours (Ofcom, 2011).

It's said that an army marches on its stomach. Rachel Duffett who completed her doctorate in history at the University of Essex has been testing out this saying while researching the rations of those serving on the Western Front during World War 1.

A pioneering new project, underpinned by research funded by the AHRC, has enabled a leading Egyptologist, Dr Sally-Ann Ashton of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, to develop museum resources for prison education departments and individual learners. Working in partnership with HMP Edmunds Hill (Suffolk) and HMP Manchester, the project has been expanded to include four other prisons on a regular basis.